[Openstack] Keystone External Authentication clarification

Remo Mattei remo at italy1.com
Tue Jan 21 15:37:11 UTC 2014


Keystone has the opportunity to work as an SSO there was a project on that and does have a plugin for LDAP not sure if this is something you are looking for. Also not sure if the SSO is on hold or still under dev. 

Remo

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> Il giorno Jan 21, 2014, alle ore 5:58, Joe Topjian <joe at topjian.net> ha scritto:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> One of the new features advertised in the Havana release of Keystone was external authentication via REMOTE_USER. I'm beginning to assume that I should take that at face value: Keystone has external auth, but that's it. OpenStack as a whole cannot currently utilize it.
> 
> Is this an incorrect assumption?
> 
> For example, I set up Keystone behind Apache just like the developer docs say. Everything worked.
> 
> Now I wanted to test external authentication. Just for practice, I tried http basic auth. I was successful in obtaining a token:
> 
> curl --user joe:foobar -d '{"auth":{}}' -H "Content-type: application/json" http://localhost:5000/v2.0/tokens
> 
> But I don't think it's possible to use the command line tools (nova, glance et al) to work with a single token. I also don't see how Horizon can utilize an http-auth protected Keystone without modification.
> 
> Am I wrong? If so, can someone point me to, at least, a proof of concept if not a production example?
> 
> Is it correct to say that if I want Keystone to authenticate users against an unsupported/custom database while still retaining compatibility with all other OpenStack components, then I should write a custom backend such as described here:
> 
> https://thestaticvoid.com/post/2013/06/04/customizing-the-openstack-keystone-authentication-backend/
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Joe
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